I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that’s real peace of mind. I don’t have to worry about that when I’m walking around in the world.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

The goal of jiu-jitsu in self-defense isn’t to take someone down to the ground – the goal in jiu-jitsu for self-defense is actually to be able to defend yourself on the ground, get up, and get away from an attacker. That’s what the goal is.

Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I’ve ever met.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

War is the business of barbarians.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

I’m not a big politics guy.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Posture for combat is so vital.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

I live in Hollywood, but you can’t make me love Hollywood. I’ll never love Hollywood.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

I’ve learned new footwork patterns that are very unusual. I’ve learned how to find a lower centre of gravity, and I’ve found more angles to throw shots.

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

People say that I’m a boxer. I actually started with kick boxing, and then I moved onto boxing, and then I moved onto grappling.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.